An Absolute Can Only Be Given In

On The Other Hand, The Pleasure Caused By Laughter, Even On The Stage, Is Not An Unadulterated Enjoyment; It Is Not A Pleasure That Is Exclusively Esthetic Or Altogether Disinterested. It Always Implies A Secret Or Unconscious Intent, If Not Of Each One Of Us, At All Events Of Society As A Whole. In Laughter We Always Find An Unavowed Intention To Humiliate, And Consequently To Correct Our Neighbour, If Not In His Will, At Least In His Deed.

All The Living Hold Together, And All Yield To The Same Tremendous Push. The Animal Takes Its Stand On The Plant, Man Bestrides Animality, And The Whole Of Humanity, In Space And In Time, Is One Immense Army Galloping Beside And Before And Behind Each Of Us In An Overwhelming Charge Able To Beat Down Every Resistance And Clear The Most Formidable Obstacles, Perhaps Even Death.

Laughter Is, Above All, A Corrective. Being Intended To Humiliate, It Must Make A Painful Impression On The Person Against Whom It Is Directed. By Laughter, Society Avenges Itself For The Liberties Taken With It. It Would Fail In Its Object If It Bore The Stamp Of Sympathy Or Kindness.

I Would Say Act Like A Man Of Thought And Think Like A Man Of Action.

If Reality Impacted Directly On Our Senses And Our Consciousness, If We Could Have Direct Communication Between The Material World And Ourselves, Art Would Be Unnecessary.